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..Although some may still consider autologous tissue reconstruction as the gold standard, today's prosthetic reconstructions play an equally important role in the reconstruction of the breast for many women...

..Late seromas surrounding breast implants are becoming an increasingly important issue in breast surgery. The authors report their experience with late seromas and describe their previous management options...

Two-stage prosthetic breast reconstruction using AlloDerm including outcomes of different timings of radiotherapy

..This set the stage for a series of Food and Drug Administration advisory panel meetings and a moratorium on the sale of these implants from 1992 until 2006, when sufficient clinical data were presented to demonstrate their safety...

..The purpose of this study was to build on the authors' prior experience by expanding the cohort of patients and to identify risk factors for failed breast device salvage and recurrent infection/exposure...

..Over the past several years, it has become more widely accepted, especially in the setting of prophylactic mastectomy, but its role in the treatment of breast cancer has only recently been reexamined...

..The "neosubpectoral" pocket is therefore not a "repair" of the excessively medialized symmastia pocket, but is a new pocket, limited at its perimeter by the patient's own tissues rather than by sutures or a patch...

..This demand has led to the need for careful preoperative planning and surgical execution to minimize the most frequent complications. This article focuses on the authors' experience with the technical aspects of the procedure...

..The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of smoking on flap, donor-site, and other individual and multiple complications in pedicled transverse rectus abdominis myocutaneous (TRAM) flap breast reconstruction...

..These deficits result in a faster rate of fatigue during activities in which the arms are extended over the head, such as ladder climbing and swimming. In addition, there is no decrease in range of shoulder motion...

Breast augmentation with reduced-height anatomic implants: the pros and cons

..The purpose of this study is to examine the effect of various risk factors on complications in patients undergoing pedicled transverse rectus abdominis musculocutaneous (TRAM) flap breast reconstruction...